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Duane Mecham is a senior attorney with the Department of the Interior’s Solicitor’s Office based in Portland, Oregon. He advises several Interior agencies on water rights matters and on Endangered Species Act compliance issues arising out of impacts of federal water projects on salmon in the Columbia and other river basins. He was the chair of the federal government’s negotiation team for the Nez Perce water right claims in Idaho and has been appointed as chair of the Umatilla (Oregon) and Salish-Kootenai (Montana) federal water right negotiation teams.